❓ What kind of society do we want to build — and how can we make that vision actionable?
➡️ This is one of the questions we keep coming back to when thinking about complex societal challenges.
📣 We are very pleased that the European School of Social Innovation (ESSI) will once again be actively involved in OpenLivingLab Days 2026, organised by ENoLL, this year in Brussels and Antwerp.
✅ ESSI will be represented by Elisabeth Unterfrauner and Toñi Caro, contributing to the programme through different formats, including the round table “Living Labs and Citizen Science: Creating Value, Measuring Impact” and the panel “From onboarding to debriefing and beyond– challenges and opportunities when working with quadruple helix stakeholders in social innovation projects”, as well as other presentations and posters from our community.
🤝In addition, we are pleased to further strengthen our scientific collaboration with the OLLD community by contributing reviewers to the research strand. We are also very happy to continue supporting the event as a sponsor, reinforcing our long-term commitment to the European and International Living Lab ecosystem.
💡 For us, the connection between Social Innovation and Living Labs is particularly powerful. Living Labs provide spaces where different actors can come together, experiment, learn and co-create in real-life contexts. But when we are dealing with complex challenges, how we innovate matters as much as what we innovate.
➡️ Social Innovation brings another essential dimension: the question of the society we want to contribute to building — the values, relationships and forms of participation that should shape the solutions we develop. This year’s theme, “Living Labs Impacts and Values for a Changing World”, feels particularly relevant to this conversation.
🚀 We are looking forward to reconnecting with the Living Lab community, exchanging perspectives and, most importantly, continuing conversations on how we can move from experimentation to meaningful societal change.
❓ What kind of society do we want to build — and how can we make that vision actionable?
➡️ This is one of the questions we keep coming back to when thinking about complex societal challenges.
📣 We are very pleased that the European School of Social Innovation (ESSI) will once again be actively involved in OpenLivingLab Days 2026, organised by ENoLL, this year in Brussels and Antwerp.
✅ ESSI will be represented by Elisabeth Unterfrauner and Toñi Caro, contributing to the programme through different formats, including the round table “Living Labs and Citizen Science: Creating Value, Measuring Impact” and the panel “From onboarding to debriefing and beyond– challenges and opportunities when working with quadruple helix stakeholders in social innovation projects”, as well as other presentations and posters from our community.
🤝In addition, we are pleased to further strengthen our scientific collaboration with the OLLD community by contributing reviewers to the research strand. We are also very happy to continue supporting the event as a sponsor, reinforcing our long-term commitment to the European and International Living Lab ecosystem.
💡 For us, the connection between Social Innovation and Living Labs is particularly powerful. Living Labs provide spaces where different actors can come together, experiment, learn and co-create in real-life contexts. But when we are dealing with complex challenges, how we innovate matters as much as what we innovate.
➡️ Social Innovation brings another essential dimension: the question of the society we want to contribute to building — the values, relationships and forms of participation that should shape the solutions we develop. This year’s theme, “Living Labs Impacts and Values for a Changing World”, feels particularly relevant to this conversation.
🚀 We are looking forward to reconnecting with the Living Lab community, exchanging perspectives and, most importantly, continuing conversations on how we can move from experimentation to meaningful societal change.